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1 Dead, 9 missing in chemical tank rupture at pulp and paper mill(kgw.com)
3 points by estreeper 4mo ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 1y ago
It wouldn’t be HN if your joke wasn’t met with pedantry, so I’ll mention the heat and pressure at the surface means the atmosphere is a supercritical fluid of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5% nitrogen. Buyers should have all the facts
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by estreeper 2y ago
Very exciting - I'm a long-time vim user but most of my coworkers use VSCode, and I've been wanting to try out in-editor completion tools like this. After using it for a couple hours (on Elixir code) with Qwen2.5-Coder-3B and no a
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by estreeper 2y ago
This is a tough question to answer, because it depends a lot on what you want to do! One way to approach it may be to look at what models you want to run and check the amount of VRAM they need. A back-of-the-napkin method taken from here[0]
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by estreeper 2y ago
Total healthcare spending per capita includes insurance premiums too though, which is $8,951 for single coverage and $25,572 for family coverage[0], and needs to be added to that ~$1,400 to get the total cost. Some amount of this may be p
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by estreeper 2y ago
A nice tradeoff in many cases is to have a separate schema rather than a separate database, which allows preserving referential integrity and using the database’s RBAC to restrict access to the schemas. This also means things like cascading
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by estreeper 2y ago
> it’s been a net negative for taxpayers This analysis[1] from the Cato Institute found the opposite: “immigrants pay more in taxes than they consume in benefits”. [1] https://www.cato.org/blog/fiscal-impact-immigrat
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by estreeper 2y ago
We've built many production apps using LiveView. It has some limitations inherent to its design, namely the need to have a semi-reliable WebSocket connection to be able to effectively use the app, but with this tradeoff come a number o
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by estreeper 2y ago
In the United States, federal tax applies when the estate is valued over $13.6M for 2024[1], though as you mention spousal transfers and other methods can be used for tax avoidance as well. 1. https://www.irs.gov/businesses&
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by estreeper 2y ago
Not to mention various other wars and random fires, such as the Ōnin War 応仁の乱 in the 1400s, a civil war between many feudal lords, which destroyed much of Kyoto among other areas. The world's oldest extant wooden structure is the Kondō
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What Is USPS General Delivery?(faq.usps.com)
2 points by estreeper 2y ago|1 comments
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by estreeper 2y ago
Here’s a short video of this armor in action: https://youtu.be/rm2ZR25xU8M?si=6HdtRO8cFxB5HO8l
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Robot dogs with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines evaluation(arstechnica.com)
2 points by estreeper 2y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 2y ago
I'm curious how people are handling multi-lingual embeddings. I've found LASER[1] which originally had the idea to embed all languages in the same vector space, though it's a bit harder to use than models available through Se
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by estreeper 2y ago
Just to add to this, a great resource is the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) leaderboard which you can use to find good models to evaluate, and there are many open models that outperform i.e. OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002, cu
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by estreeper 3y ago
Energy use should be a concern, but it’s important to understand the magnitude of the problems and not simply conflate crypto and AI. To compare the technologies against each other: Bitcoin: 145B = 145,000M kWh/year ChatGPT: 0.5M * 365
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Court of Chancery Opinion: Richard Tornetta vs. Elon Musk(courts.delaware.gov)
34 points by estreeper 3y ago|15 comments
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by estreeper 3y ago
For embeddings specifically, there are multiple open source models that outperform OpenAI’s best model (text-embedding-ada-002) that you can see on the MTEB Leaderboard [1] > embedding-based approach will be cheaper and faster, but worse
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Open-Source Semantic Vector Search with Pgvector and Instructor(revelry.co)
18 points by estreeper 3y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 3y ago
I recently wrote a tutorial on making a vector driven semantic search app using all open source tools (pgvector, Instructor, and Flask) that might be helpful: https://revelry.co/insights/open-source-semantic-vector-sear
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by estreeper 3y ago
If you're just looking to play with something locally for the first time, this is the simplest project I've found and has a simple web UI: https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai It works for 7B/13B&#x2F
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Open source semantic vector search with Instructor, pgvector, and Flask(revelry.co)
8 points by estreeper 3y ago|0 comments
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Open-Source Semantic Vector Search with Instructor, Pgvector, and Flask(revelry.co)
2 points by estreeper 3y ago|1 comments
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by estreeper 3y ago
Great work and great concept - I found the copy to be clear and communicated the value proposition effectively, and I would certainly consider using this when selling my house since I could potentially get 10s of thousands of dollars more.
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by estreeper 4y ago
In addition to the agreed price of $16B, Facebook added $3.6B to retain employees. WhatsApp had 55 employees at the time [0]. Near the end of the referenced article is an interesting comparison of different prices/employee for other ac
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Pando (tree): the heaviest known organism(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by estreeper 5y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 5y ago
You can always spot the ones who have tried it! A satisfying and poetic way to retire a system.
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by estreeper 5y ago
I hate to recommend what is just another service provider, but there are many cloud hosting providers that offer email sending (i.e. AWS, GCP, etc.) and dedicated email companies (Sendgrid, Mailgun, etc.). The cost to send email via any of
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by estreeper 5y ago
To add to this, also remember to do this for anything else you might use to send email: servers/cloud services providers you use for transactional emails, any provider you might use for marketing emails, etc.
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by estreeper 5y ago
> The road to "tutorial hell" is paved with blogposts and missing fundamentals Even worse is that blog posts can have incorrect, bad, or even dangerous information. If you've just found it in a search, you have no idea of

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